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The Business Challenge
Availability, reliability, and performance: these are the key imperatives for today's data center. But today's enterprise is struggling to meet the demands of these areas, while balancing those demands with cost efficiency goals.
The growing list of requirements includes greater demand for "always on" services, regulatory compliance for business continuity and data integrity, new applications deployments, technology refresh, and changes caused by mergers and acquisitions.
The AT&T Solution
AT&T Consulting Solutions helps enterprises address the plethora of IT technology and process required to ensure data center availability, reliability, and performance. Our assessment and analysis activities enable us to define and validate business requirements, identify interdependencies of technology to deliver services, and understand the tolerance for downtime and recovery. Our Data Center Architecture and Integration services provide a holistic portfolio of capabilities across the life cycle of Planning, Design, Integration, and Optimization.
Our typical areas of focus include:
- LAN / WAN Infrastructure—providing a robust network design which ensures high availability and Quality of Service access to remote sites. This maximizes cost effectiveness while ensuring priority access to mission critical data as well as real-time applications such as voice and video.
- Convergence Infrastructure—reviewing how voice, video and contact center services will be provided from the data center and in accordance with Business Continuity and disaster recovery requirements.
- Server and Operating Systems—providing scalable architectures for centralized enterprise directory, identity, and messaging services, and secure remote access to all data center applications.
- Security—assessing the risks and devising a secure technology architecture and policy framework which balances those risks with the expected benefits and cost to implement
- Operations Management—ensuring there is an enterprise wide capability for monitoring and managing data center traffic and assets using the optimal people, process, and technology resources.
Solution Benefits
- Reduces deployment and migration risks by leveraging experience and best practices developed over dozens of large scale, enterprise-wide migrations
- Improves alignment of your IT investment with business imperatives
- Improves application availability and performance
- Accelerates time-to-market for new application deployments
- Provides greater integration for management and operations
- Ensures process coverage and effectiveness
